Breakfast ideas

My favorite now is scrambled eggs with kidney beans, shredded cheese hot salsa and slices of avocado on top. I generally don't need lunch when I do this one. LOL! When I am heading for a bike ride, I scoop this up with chips. yummmmm

When I had lyme, my go to breakfast was avocados or eggs. One slice of sourdough toast. I did not feel like making breakfast. I did not feel like getting up. I always kept a high protein bar in the pantry because with lyme I didn't even feel like boiling an egg most days. It took too much effort.

I also would make a huge bowl (like 8 cups) of steel cut oats. I let them cool and put them in the fridge. All you have to do is scoop them out and nuke them. That was easy. For variety you can add in some nuts, fruit or on my lazy days I added in granola for some crunch.

Celery and almond butter. Quick and easy.

Online there is a recipe called 5 ingredient snack bars. I made those and added in protein powder.

Like I said, when I was super sick I didn't feel like doing anything. On my good days, I cooked for the days I felt like crud.

I make steal cut oatmeal w/ cinnamon, granny smith apples, a bit of stevia to sweeten and walnuts. Very filling with the protein punch. I dice up the apples in the water to cook a bit while I am waiting for it to boil toss in the steal cut oatmeal and other ingredients Yum. Nice and filling. As long as your steal cut oatmeal is Non GMO & gluten free you should be fine.

Ashleyann82587 said...
Post your protein packed breakfast ideas please.

Do you have a confirmed protein deficiency? Or, do you just like protein-heavy foods?

I make cocconut bread, slice it and freeze individual slices. I make sure I take 2 slices out of the freezer the night before. I will usually eat eggs with it (hard boiled, onion and pepper omelet, etc,).

Patty

I usually only eat "meals" 1-2x a day- and have to force that... but I have begun to keep nuts on hand for times I just can't cook and to add calories Eating enough & well can be such a struggle when you feel sick.

If I've got the energy & physical ability to cook breakfast it's eggs or almond flour & coconut flour pancakes with hemp seeds ( if I make pancakes I usually make enough for 2 meals).

Even if I'm not up to cooking (or eating) I try to make sure I get some protein & fat into me by drinking tea with collagen & coconut oil. It sounds gross, but I've come to love it & it's definitely a lifesaver if you aren't up to doing the food thing. You can also make a yummy hot chocolate with collagen & coconut oil too. Very filling.

Protein may make you hold more fluid weight, but it is no better than carbs when attempting to add pounds to your physique. Fat has twice the calories per gram compared to carbs or protein. Total absorbed calories is the key to gaining weight. For physique weight increase, depending on work load, I usually recommend 15 to 17 times your weight in calories per day. That number is sufficient in over 90% of the people to gain 1 lb per week. The 10% usually have a malabsorption issue.

For breakfast, I eat 30 grams of oatmeal sweetened with 35 grams of blue berries.

Oh I meant to tell you that I also use a lot of recipes from a Lyme cookbook I found. It's the only one specific to lyme that I found. It is the " Recipes for repair" cookbook. You can find it on Amazon I believe. very yummy meals that even my family lies. It has breakfast, lunches, main meals , smoothies, snacks . All very good so far. It has really helped me create healthier meals for even when I feel too bad to do much. Several you can make and freeze for those days when we feel too crappy to care.

Ha very true BabsBunny!, I just either omit or replace some of the things in the recipes I can't have the book lists. It has just been useful to give me ideas and a direction to go when I am tired or at a loss of what to eat. I was desperate to find something to somewhat guide me when I first started treating a over I ago. It does give me a few go to options I wouldn't have thought of before. Not buying a $400 blender!!! I skip the honey and rarely use the Ghee. And that's the only time I use any dairy. Nuts and all the almond flour are good for us but so calorie laden and it doesn't always makes things taste good either!!!! I search Pintrest for Paleo ideas -sometime there are good ones there.
Sometimes I just saute some veggies with quinoa for the protein and that's my breakfast. Getting real tired of eggs too. Makes me sick to think of them at times.

BabsBunny said...
I was into hummus and crisp vegetables for a while, but now it just makes me sick what to do with 5 lbs of chickpeas I stocked up on...?

Yeah, that's what I had for breakfast yesterday with my doxy. Destroyed my stomach.

Chick peas are so good though. Cook them and then saute some onion, garlic and then tomato. Add the chick peas and some water and some tomato paste and simmer. Can a little olive oil. If that was a serious question, ha. Or look for a Moroccan chickpea stew recipe -- I used to make one with eggplant and cumin.

Just found eggplants at the farm and remembered the most delicious hummus alternative: Romanian eggplant salad. If you can handle nightshades.

(I don't add the mayonnaise, and instead of spending my whole Saturday chopping furiously like a Romanian, I throw it all in the food processor.). Tastes better when grilled, but ovens do just fine. Amazing on fresh gluten free bread.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/nadias-salata-de-vinete-eggplant-salad-spread-2329715